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2. Glossary of French words and expressions in English

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   lit. "stamp"; a distinctive quality; quality, prestige. café. a coffee shop (also used in French for "coffee"). Café au lait. café au lait. coffee with milk; or a light-brown color. In medicine, it is also used to describe a birthmark that is of a light-brown color (café au lait spot). calque. a copied term/thing.

3. French language - Wikipedia

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   French (français [fʁɑ̃sɛ] ⓘ or langue française [lɑ̃ɡ fʁɑ̃sɛːz] ⓘ) is a Romance language of the Indo-European family. It descended from the Vulgar Latin of the Roman Empire, as did all Romance languages. French evolved from Gallo-Romance, the Latin spoken in Gaul, and more specifically in Northern Gaul. Its closest relatives ...

4. List of English words of French origin (A–C) - Wikipedia

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   adjudge(Old French ajugier, compare modern French adjuger) adjust(Old French ajoster, compare modern French ajuster) administer(Old French aministrer, compare modern French administrer) administration. admirable. admiral(Old French amiral) admiration. admire. admissible.

5. List of French words of English origin - Wikipedia

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   Le lifting. A facelift, plastic surgery. La success story. An example of an English phrase made up of words of French origin that has been reborrowed into French. Le dealer. A dealer of illegal drugs. Le cheese. In the context of "le Royale Cheese" in McDonald's. If you order "un cheese", you get a cheeseburger.

6. List of English words of French origin - Wikipedia

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   It excludes combinations of words of French origin with words whose origin is a language other than French — e.g., ice cream, sunray, jellyfish, killjoy, lifeguard, and passageway— and English-made combinations of words of French origin — e.g., grapefruit (grape + fruit), layperson (lay + person), mailorder, magpie, marketplace, surrender ...

7. French orthography - Wikipedia

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   French orthography encompasses the spelling and punctuation of the French language.It is based on a combination of phonemic and historical principles. The spelling of words is largely based on the pronunciation of Old French c. 1100 –1200 AD, and has stayed more or less the same since then, despite enormous changes to the pronunciation of the language in the intervening years.